xfce4-volstatus-icon plugin crashes

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Joost Kremers wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else has experienced crashes with
> xfce4-volstatus-icon plugin? Occasionally, when I have some usb device
> plugged in and I left-click on the icon in the systray to unmount the
> device, the plugin crashes. I can't discover any fixed pattern, though it
> usually seems to happen when I have (or have had) two usb devices plugged
> in at the same time.
> 
> Usually, I just restart xfce4-volstatus-icon from a Terminal window and all
> is fine. The other day, however, the plugin kept crashing as soon as I
> clicked the icon. It produced the following output to the terminal:
> 
> =======================================================================
> 
> ** (xfce4-volstatus-icon:3652): CRITICAL **: ghal_volume_ensure_hal_volume: assertion `GHAL_IS_VOLUME(volume)' failed
> 
> ** (xfce4-volstatus-icon:3652): CRITICAL **: ghal_volume_get_icon_list: assertion `ghal_volume_ensure_hal_volume(volume) && (context = _ghal_device_peek_context(GHAL_DEVICE(volume))) && (hal_ctx = _ghal_context_peek_libhal_context(context)) && (storage_drive = ghal_volume_get_storage_device(volume)) && (storage_hal_drive = _ghal_drive_peek_libhal_drive(GHAL_DRIVE(storage_drive)))' failed
> 
> ** (xfce4-volstatus-icon:3652): CRITICAL **: ghal_volume_ensure_hal_volume: assertion `GHAL_IS_VOLUME(volume)' failed
> 
> ** (xfce4-volstatus-icon:3652): CRITICAL **: ghal_volume_get_display_name: assertion `ghal_volume_ensure_hal_volume(volume) && (context = _ghal_device_peek_context(GHAL_DEVICE(volume))) && (hal_ctx = _ghal_context_peek_libhal_context(context)) && (storage_drive = ghal_volume_get_storage_device(volume)) && (storage_hal_drive = _ghal_drive_peek_libhal_drive(GHAL_DRIVE(storage_drive)))' failed
> 
> (xfce4-volstatus-icon:3652): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_type_compatible: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_VALUE (src_type)' failed
> 
> (xfce4-volstatus-icon:3652): Gtk-WARNING **: gtktreestore.c:951: invalid object type `
> 
> =======================================================================
> 
> Anyone have any idea what the problem could be and/or where I should go
> about reporting it?

bugs.xfce.org, as always.

> Xfce 4.4.2 with xfce4-volstatus-icon v. 0.1.0.

Version 0.1.0 is really old -- I'm pretty sure I've fixed this issue in 
SVN, but it's been a long time since I've made a release.  If you can 
try to see if you have the same problem with SVN, that would be helpful. 
  Otherwise I suppose you'll have to wait...

	-brian